About us
Masters in Economics, (Lic.rer.pol.), CFA, CAIA
- 2004 – 2007
Real Estate Analyst CS Private Banking
- 2007 – 2008
Senior economist at SNB, ghostwriter for former
SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan
- 2008 – 2014
Member of Executive Management of SNB Stabfund
- 2014 – 2020
Head Global Real Estate Reseach at CSAM
- 2020
Head Indirect Real Estate/ Member of the Executive Board at Dicoval
- 2020
CEO/Owner Macro Real Estate
PhD
- 2004 – 2006:
Service Agent, Kaupthing Bank, Iceland
- 2006 – 2008
Junior Economist, Kaupthing Bank Research, Iceland
- 2008 – 2014
Postgraduate studies (MSc. Money & Banking, PhD Economics. Thesis: Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Instability), United Kingdom
- 2015 – 2021
Real Estate Analyst, later leading the Real Estate Research function at Zurich Insurance, Switzerland
- 2017 – 2021
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Iceland
- 2021 – 2024
Head of Global Real Estate Research, Credit Suisse Asset Management, Switzerland
- 2024 – 2026
Head of EMEA ex-DACH Real Estate Research, UBS Asset Management, Switzerland
- 2026
Partner at Macro Real Estate
✓ Achieved a 3.8 bn USD profit and successful wind-down of
USD 38.9 bn of assets on SNB Stabfund
✓ Oversaw successful workouts of US, EU and Japanese CRE and residential loans (2009-2013)
✓ Researched more than 30bn USD of CRE equity deals in Europe, JP, AUS, NZ, KOR, CAN and the US
✓ Contributed to the successful launch of core, value added and multi-manager products at CSAM
✓ Published articles in newspapers, built up real estate publication series at CS and SNB
✓ Speaker at conferences, lecturer at universities
✓ Member of several boards and committees
